SLP 03 (2013)

The States Parties undertake to place no obstacle in the way of concrete and effective implementation of this right.They undertake also to elaborate and implement a permanent and regularly updated program of assistance to environmentally-displaced persons. 2. Right to water and to subsistence food aid Each environmentally-displaced person has the right to an adequate supply of drinking water and food. 3. Right to health care Each environmentally-displaced person has the right to receive necessary health care. In particular, vulnerable persons are entitled to specific support. 4. Right to juridical personality Each environmentally-displaced person has the right everywhere to recognition of his or her juridical personality. Each environmentally-displaced person has the right to replacement of the documentation necessary to fully enjoy the rights derived from having legal personality. 5. Civil and Political Rights Each person environmentally-displaced retains his or her civil and political rights. 6. Right to housing Each environmentally-displaced person has the right to salubrious and secure housing, adapted to his or her family situation. Each individual can freely choose his or her place of residence. 6.1 If circumstances require, displaced persons are to be housed in a temporary shelter which State Parties to the present Convention undertake to set up with the strictest respect for human dignity. This stay shall not last longer than required by the circumstances. 6.2 All environmentally displaced persons housed in a temporary shelter have the right to move freely. 6.3 After a stay in a temporary shelter, environmentally displaced persons have the right to adequate housing. To this end, States Parties shall implement policies that make it possible for environmentally displaced persons to leave a temporary shelter to settle into a normal living condition. 7. Right to return An environmentally displaced person has the right to return when his or her place of origin is again habitable. Notwithstanding whether the displacement was inter-state or internal, the State of origin has a positive obligation to organize the return of all

environmentally displaced persons. 8. Right to respect for the family Each environmentally-displaced person has the right: (a) not to be separated from family members,

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